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Aircraft manufacturing went from a distant 41st place among American industries to first place in less than five years. [1] [2] [3] In 1939, total aircraft production for the US military was less than 3,000 planes. By the end of the war, America produced 300,000 planes. No war was more industrialized than World War II.
Complete Book of World War II Combat Aircraft (1988) 414pp; Angelucci, Enzo. The Rand McNally Encyclopedia Of Military Aircraft, 1914-1980 (1988) 546pp; includes production data; Harrison, Mark, ed. The economics of World War II: six great powers in international comparison (Cambridge University Press, 2000) Overy, Richard (2016).
When the war began, Deeds was commissioned and put in charge of procurement for the Aircraft Production Board. He divested himself of his financial interest in Dayton-Wright but awarded the company two contracts to produce more than 4,000 DH-4 and Standard SJ-1 aircraft.
North American O-47 - Observation aircraft; North American P-51 Mustang - Fighter; North American P-64 - Fighter/advanced trainer; North American F-82 Twin Mustang - Fighter; Northrop A-13/A-16/A-17/A-33 - Attack aircraft; Northrop XP-56 Black Bullet - Prototype fighter; Northrop P-61 Black Widow - Night fighter; Northrop XP-79 - Prototype ...
The Quest: Haywood Hansell and American Strategic Bombing in World War II. Maxwell Air Force Base: Air University Press. ISBN 1-58566-069-8. Maurer, Maurer (1987). Aviation in the U.S. Army, 1919–1939, Office of Air Force History, Washington, D.C. ISBN 1-4102-1391-9; Maurer, Maurer (1961).
A total of 609 aircraft were built during the production run. The name Buckeye refers to the state tree of Ohio , as well as the mascot of Ohio State University . Every jet-qualified Naval Aviator and virtually every Naval Flight Officer from the late 1950s until 2004 received training in the T-2 Buckeye, a length of service spanning over four ...
Military production during World War II was the production or mobilization of arms, ammunition, personnel and financing by the belligerents of the war, from the occupation of Austria in early 1938 to the surrender and occupation of Japan in late 1945.
The Ohio Medical University built Protestant Hospital, the forerunner of Riverside Methodist Hospitals, which still exists. In 1907, the Ohio Medical University merged with Starling Medical College to form the Starling-Ohio Medical College. [3] The Ohio State College of Medicine was established in 1914 with William Means as the first dean.